Quinte Conservation volunteer Barnaba Szluinski explains his inspirations and process in making a wind phone Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, at Sidney Conservation Area outside Stirling, Ont. Born in Poland, he recalled eastern Europe's many roadside and forest shrines to the departed. Photo by Luke Hendry / The Belleville Intelligencer

Quinte Conservation's Kirsten Geisler holds the handset of the wind phone Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, at Sidney Conservation Area outside Stirling, Ont. Wind phones are a symbolic way of expressing grief for lost loved ones. Geisler, who in 2018 lost her father, proposed the project. Photo by Luke Hendry / The Belleville Intelligencer

A vintage, unconnected touch-tone telephone hangs in Quinte Conservation's "wind phone" installation Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025

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